Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
SQUIBS.

Five hundred gallons of wine have just
been received in Chicago from Jerusalem.
1t has been more than two months on the
way. 1t will be used for Passover purposes
Two ceate arians died in Lowell on Sun
day-Paul McAloon, aged 101 years and
Rose Mcguire, 1O3 years. Both were ma
nearly half a century.
Fourteen of the seventeen prominent
women of Seattle, w. T., who were inter
viewed on the women suffrage question,
said that they were glad that the law had
been declared void.
pot hunter in Georgia came upon a
covey Of twelve cartridges kuddled to-
gether on the ground. He fired into the
bunch and murdered eleven, aud then kill
ed the twelfth with his second barrel as it
tried to fly away,
The only Quaker tavern keeper in Dala-
ware county, Pa, is said to be Uncle Benny
Rogers, widely known as the host of the
hosetree Inn. He will not sell liquor to
man of known drinking habits, nor to a
man who has had too much frewater.
Joseph Messenger of Altoona, Pa,
found nest of six young rats in a barrel
He put his cat in the barrel that she might
slaughte them, but she then and there
adopted the ratings, and endeavored to
carry them away In her mouth as she
would her own kittens.
A citizen of ,Hawkinsville, Ga. bought
turtle. cut off its head, and had turtle
soup for dinner. The next day an I'M
suspecting chicken pecking at the head
was grabbed, and not released until the
mouth of the head of the cooked turtle
was opened with knife.
Private Dyke fell off his horse near
Fort Duchesne, Utah, and was stunned
by the fall He froze to death before he
recovered consciousness. This is the
paragraph that comes from tAe West. !
How it was ascertained that he was no
killed outright by the fall is not said.
Stella Hays, aged Ia, and Irwin Laugh
jim, aged 10, both girls and both of Pitts
burgh, are heirs to millions. Stella
grandfather left $5,OOO,OO0 to be divided
among four heirs, of which she is one;
and Irwin is an orphan and will have
more than one million when she is of
age.
A Montana man reached Chicago with
five car loads of good cattle the other day;
sold them at an advantage, and turned
up in a police court next morning with
rs cents, which was all that remained of
the thousands of dollars that he had
when he started to take in the town.
The devastation of the grain fields of
Alameda county, CAL, by wild ducks and
geese at night, set the farmers wits at
work to keep them away. The best device
so far is to burn candles here and there
over the fields. They are protected from
the wind by sacks, and have thus far
proved efficaciOus.
Gerrys com pleted portrait of Mrs.
Cleveland does not meet with approval
from the critics. It represents her in
black velvet, which is not as becoming as
the wine-colored plush she sometimes
wears. The likeness is not faithful one,
and altogether the picture is not thought
to deserve permanent place in the White
House gallery,
The United States Senate has confirm
ed the nomination of Daniel Magone to
be Collector of Customs of the port of
New York.
Senator Sherman will make an extended
Southern tour after the adjournment of
Congress. He will deliver speech at
Nashville, Tenn, on the political issues
of the day.
The President has signed the bill Great
ing an additional Associate Justice for
the Supreme Court of the Territory of
New Mexico, and appointed R. A. Reeves,
of Texas, as the new Associate Justice.
The bill to submit to the people a con-
stitutiOnal amendment comforting full
suffrage upon women, subject to the same
conditions and limitations as men, was
passed in the Rhode Island Senate by a
vote of 26 TO s.
The chinook in Montana which COM
menced Saturday has carried off great
part of the snow, EXCEPT in the mountains,
and the cattle are again feeding and rest
ing from there recent severe experience.
Twenty thousand persons are rendered
homeless by the earthquake in Italy. The
material losses are estimated at $4,000,
600, falling mostly upon industrious vii
layers.
While the Queen Regent of Spain was
out riding yesterday, a missile was thrown
at her carriage by man in the street,
who imediately disappeared. The Queen
Regent was not hurt.
Mr.. j ohm A. Elder, Richmond artist,
is at Beauvoir, Miss, painting portrait
of Jefferson Davis. 1t represents him
standing in the attitude of speaking, one
hand extended, the other resting on the |
constitution lying on the table, on which |
are his books and the sword he used in the |
Mexican war